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*'''Recognizability''' – Is the candidate title a recognizable name or description of the topic?{{underdiscussion-inline|talk=Recognizable to peoplesomeone familiar...}} with (though not necessarily expert in) the topic?

*'''Naturalness''' – What title(s) are readers most likely to look for to find the article? Which title(s) will editors most naturally use to link from other articles? Such titles usually convey what the subject is actually called in English.

* '''Precision''' – How precise is the title under discussion? Consensus titles usually use names and terms that are [[#Precision and disambiguation|precise]] (see below), but only as precise as necessary to identify the topic of the article unambiguously. For technical reasons, no two Wikipedia article titles can be identical.<noinclude><ref>Some on-line encyclopedias use arbitrary numbers to distinguish pages, hence article titles do not need to be unique, but Wikipedia uses a system whereby no two pages can have identical titles. It is technically possible to make articles ''appear'' to have the same title, but this is never done, as it would be highly confusing to readers, and cause editors to make incorrect links.</ref></noinclude> For information on how ambiguity is avoided in titles, see the ''[[#Precision and disambiguation|precision and disambiguation]]'' section below and the [[WP:Disambiguation|disambiguation guideline]].